De Soto News

Residents and swimmers at Spring Lake are worried about electric currents running through the water, and now a regulatory body is investigating.

What if you started a community-wide health program and thousands participated? That's what's happening in De Soto, Missouri, in Jefferson County.

Signs warning, "Spring Lake closed until further notice," have been posted around the Summerset subdivision in southern Jefferson County for the second time in three years.

Matthew D. Whittier, 18, of De Soto, was seriously injured about 8:16 a.m. Tuesday in a head-on crash on Highway A near Patton, Mo., about 100 miles south of St.

A Marble Hill man is dead following a Tuesday morning crash near Patton, Mo. Brandon K. Holzheimer, 28, died from injuries sustained when his 1998 Dodge Stratus ran off the right side of the road, overcorrected, crossed the center line and hit a tractor-trailer head on while traveling westbound on Route A, four miles southwest of Patton, according ...

Mildred "Sue" Dillow, 90, of Jackson passed away Friday, June 5, 2009, at the Monticello House in Jackson.

An eastern Missouri doctor has been sentenced to 33 months in prison on a health care fraud charge.

It's a day off for students in a local school district where vandals smashed the lights on nearly every school bus.

DE SOTO, Mo. - A school district that serves 350 elementary schoolchildren in Jefferson and St.

St. Charles - Jurors found a driver guilty of involuntary manslaughter Thursday in a high-speed drunken driving crash that killed a motorcyclist on the Blanchette Bridge.

Health experts said there are five confirmed H1N1 flu cases for students at Riverview Elementary in Shawnee, Kan.

Mineral Area College's Commencement at 10:30 a.m. on May 9 will feature an address to graduates by Missouri's governor, Jeremiah "Jay" Nixon.

LaDonna S. Stephenson, 69, of Lebanon, died Thursday, April 23, 2009, at her home in Lebanon.

COLUMBIA Rod Robison was an insecure seventh-grader. Growing up, he had to live with a conspicuous scar that cut across his left rib cage around to his back.

A man from De Soto was killed early Saturday in a single-car crash near De Soto.

The suspect in the fatal shooting of a Belleville, Ill., man is found hanged in a home near De Soto, Mo.

A Jefferson County jury recommends AmerenUE pay $2.3 million to families of teenagers involved in an electrical accident three years ago.

March 5, 2009 - Attorney Brooks Kenagy, center, hugs Tracy and Ginger Jones outside the Jefferson County Courthouse.

Ginger and Tracy Jones built their home in 1990 from Ginger's childhood picture of her dream home - a house built into a hill with a back deck overlooking a lake.

The Missouri National Guard is proud to welcome home nearly 1,000 Citizen-Soldiers in nine ceremonies across the state.